BuddyPress 1.6.1

BuddyPress 1.6.1 is now available! This version contains fixes for a few edge case bugs that came up after BuddyPress 1.6 was released last week, including: full compatibility with Multisite installations using NOBLOGREDIRECT; a regression in one of our avatar functions that caused avatars to be malformed in some themes; and a load order issue that caused fatal errors with some legacy themes. You can check out the changelog for the release at our bug tracker.

BP 1.6.1 is a recommended upgrade for all installations running BuddyPress 1.6. Have you been holding off on upgrading to 1.6? We’ve got you covered: the BP 1.6 section of the BuddyPress Codex is full of helpful information that’ll help you get your site up to date.

Similar issue… was using ‘BuddyPress Default’ with some widgets and display option changes and found the site was running ‘Twenty Eleven’ after the upgrade. Switching back to ‘BuddyPress Default’, I found that the settings were lost. No big deal, I made the widget changes etc., but seemed a bit odd…

Is there any reason you do not use the proper changelog format of other WordPress plugins?

It is extremely frustrating to click on the view details on the update screen and not see the changelog for the plugin.

I’m only pointed to a release page which doesn’t list the changes!. I have to search around the website to find this blog post which still doesn’t list all the changes; I have to follow a link to the bug tracker. It’s incredibly annoying.

Please, at a minimum just copy the bug titles from the bug tracker into the changelog section of the readme! Preferably write a proper changelog.

Mike – We don’t put the changelog inline in the readme file because it would make it extremely long. Our major releases sometimes have hundreds of fixes. We have full changelogs available at https://codex.buddypress.org/releases

Maybe at least linking to the codex age for the release in the changelog part of the readme would be a start.

Perhaps list the three most important changes and then link to the codex page.

This release happened to come in the middle of a go-live ready for customer testing. I needed to make an assessment of whether to update based on the changes: vital bug fix/security issue or something non-vital like new language translation (another plugin update had that on the same day)

The update to 1.6.1 doesn’t fix any avatar issues I have with avatars since I updated to 1.6 with Salutation theme (AND BP Default). It’s all the same – Buddypress loads always another avatar size. Sometimes …-bpfull-16×16.jpg another time -bpfull-24×24.jpg and all of them are resized to 80×80 by CSS. That just looks awful… ;(